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USENET solves most of the drawbacks to Torrenting. Occasionally I can't get something but that's highly unlikely to be a studio film that has been published on Blu-ray.

For science it took me 10:57 to locate, download, and extract a 45,215MB remux of Django (1966) from USENET.

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So that's a pretty good result for something relatively obscure!

But there must be some sort of re-encoding going on there. Because the copy of Django I ripped myself is 61.5GB, and it's only video and one DTS audio track. So I would put money on the copy you found being re-encoded somehow.

You can get pretty much any movie in a variety of encoded and untouched formats - full blurays, reasonably compressed rips, 2160p HDR, 1080p, 720p, you name it. It's all there.

Here's a selection of releases for the movie Django (1966): http://rarbg.to/torrents.php?imdb=tt0060315

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